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The government has extended the £500 tax relief for employer funded return to work treatments to include all those arranged by employer occupational health services.

The Government has announced the introduction of a cap on total welfare spending.

Aviva and Legal and General are among the six insurers that have agreed to collectively invest £25bn in UK infrastructure over the next five years.

People on sickness benefits will be required to have regular meetings with healthcare professionals or face losing benefits - in a two-year pilot scheme in central England, beginning in November.

The financial benefit cap came into place across the country at the end of September the Government has announced.

Citizens Advice has warned the welfare system must take the needs of those who use it into account, as George Osborne announced a new ‘Help to Work' programme aimed at the long-term unemployed.

Macmillan has warned the Cancer Drugs Fund is not secure for the long term.

The second part of the Help to Buy scheme will be available from this week after the Government brought forward the launch date by three months.

More than half of mortgage brokers think the government should cancel the mortgage guarantee phase of Help to Buy amid continued criticism of the scheme.

Financial education has been confirmed as an official part of the English national curriculum, including lessons on the public finances.